Abram Tertz and the Poetics of Crime

by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy

Andrei Sinyavsky, a post-Stalin Russian writer and author of fiction, essays and criticism, also wrote under the pseudonym Abram Tertz. In this book Tertz's writings are examined by the author, discussing the literary scandals and then analyzing individual works.

400 pages, Hardcover

First published June 28, 1995